The Syro Anatolian City States

Author : James F. Osborne
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199315833

Get Book

The Syro-Anatolian City-States by James F. Osborne Pdf

"This book presents a new model for the cluster of ancient kingdoms that clustered around the northeast corner of the Mediterranean Sea during the Iron age, ca. 1200-600 BCE. Rather than presenting them as ancient versions of the modern nation-state, characterized by homogenous ethnolinguistic communities like "the Aramaeans" or "the Luwians" living in neatly bounded territories, this book sees these polities as being fundamentally diverse and variable, distinguished by demographic fluidity and cultural mobility. This conclusion is reached via an examination of a host of evidentiary sources, including site plans, settlement patterns, visual arts, and historical sources. Together, these lines of evidence lead to the awareness that this time and place consists of a complex fusion of cultural traditions that is nevertheless distinctly recognizable unto itself. This book thus proposes a new term to encapsulate that diversity: the Syro-Anatolian Culture Complex"--

Author : Alessandra Gilibert
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110222265

Get Book

Syro-Hittite Monumental Art and the Archaeology of Performance by Alessandra Gilibert Pdf

The ceremonial centers of the Syro-Hittite city-states (1200-700 BC) were lavishly decorated with large-scale, open-air figurative reliefs – an original and greatly influential artistic tradition that has captivated the imagination of its contemporaries as well as that of modern scholars. This volume explores how Syro-Hittite monumental art was used as a powerful backdrop to important ritual events, and it opens up a new perspective by situating the monumental heritage in the context of large public performances and civic spectacles of great emotional impact. The first part of the volume focuses on the sites of Carchemish and Zincirli, offering a close reading of the relevant archaeological contexts. The second part of the volume discusses the embedment of monumental art in ritual performance and examines how change in art relates to change in ceremonial behavior, and how the latter relates in turn to change in power structures and models of rulership.

Author : Göran Therborn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317301578

Get Book

Cities and Power by Göran Therborn Pdf

What do cities tell us about power? How does power shape cities? These are the main questions answered by a multidisciplinary set of eminent urban scholar in crisp articles on capital cities from around the world, from Buenos Aires to Tokyo, from Jakarta to Moscow. Focus is on contemporary cities and their manifestations and representations of power, though often with a historical grounding, and the collection also includes an example of archaeological urban analysis, from northern Mesopotamia. Through its variety of approaches by leading scholars of the field, and its variety of cities with their different histories and their diverse national contexts and political organization the book gives a uniquely insightful and easily accessible world overview of cities of power. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of Urban Sciences.

Author : Jonathan M. Hall,James F. Osborne
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226819051

Get Book

The Connected Iron Age by Jonathan M. Hall,James F. Osborne Pdf

An interdisciplinary consideration of how eastern Mediterranean cultures in the first millennium BCE were meaningfully connected. The early first millennium BCE marks one of the most culturally diverse periods in the history of the eastern Mediterranean. Surveying the region from Greece to Iraq, one finds a host of cultures and political formations, all distinct, yet all visibly connected in meaningful ways. These include the early polities of Geometric period Greece, the Phrygian kingdom of central Anatolia, the Syro-Anatolian city-states, the seafaring Phoenicians and the biblical Israelites of the southern Levant, Egypt’s Twenty-first through Twenty-fifth Dynasties, the Urartian kingdom of the eastern Anatolian highlands, and the expansionary Neo-Assyrian Empire of northern Mesopotamia. This volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the social and political significance of how interregional networks operated within and between Mediterranean cultures during that era.

Author : Ömür Harmanşah
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781107311183

Get Book

Cities and the Shaping of Memory in the Ancient Near East by Ömür Harmanşah Pdf

This book investigates the founding and building of cities in the ancient Near East. The creation of new cities was imagined as an ideological project or a divine intervention in the political narratives and mythologies of Near Eastern cultures, often masking the complex processes behind the social production of urban space. During the Early Iron Age (c.1200–850 BCE), Assyrian and Syro-Hittite rulers developed a highly performative official discourse that revolved around constructing cities, cultivating landscapes, building watercourses, erecting monuments and initiating public festivals. This volume combs through archaeological, epigraphic, visual, architectural and environmental evidence to tell the story of a region from the perspective of its spatial practices, landscape history and architectural technologies. It argues that the cultural processes of the making of urban spaces shape collective memory and identity as well as sites of political performance and state spectacle.

Author : Ian Morris
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 767 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781551995816

Get Book

Why the West Rules - For Now by Ian Morris Pdf

Why does the West rule? In this magnum opus, eminent Stanford polymath Ian Morris answers this provocative question, drawing on 50,000 years of history, archeology, and the methods of social science, to make sense of when, how, and why the paths of development differed in the East and West — and what this portends for the 21st century. There are two broad schools of thought on why the West rules. Proponents of "Long-Term Lock-In" theories such as Jared Diamond suggest that from time immemorial, some critical factor — geography, climate, or culture perhaps — made East and West unalterably different, and determined that the industrial revolution would happen in the West and push it further ahead of the East. But the East led the West between 500 and 1600, so this development can't have been inevitable; and so proponents of "Short-Term Accident" theories argue that Western rule was a temporary aberration that is now coming to an end, with Japan, China, and India resuming their rightful places on the world stage. However, as the West led for 9,000 of the previous 10,000 years, it wasn't just a temporary aberration. So, if we want to know why the West rules, we need a whole new theory. Ian Morris, boldly entering the turf of Jared Diamond and Niall Ferguson, provides the broader approach that is necessary, combining the textual historian's focus on context, the anthropological archaeologist's awareness of the deep past, and the social scientist's comparative methods to make sense of the past, present, and future — in a way no one has ever done before.

Author : Claudia Glatz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108491105

Get Book

The Making of Empire in Bronze Age Anatolia by Claudia Glatz Pdf

This book reconsiders the concept of empire and examines the processes of imperial making and undoing in Hittite Anatolia (c. 1600-1180 BCE).

Author : Alessandra Gilibert
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783110222258

Get Book

Syro-Hittite Monumental Art and the Archaeology of Performance by Alessandra Gilibert Pdf

The ceremonial centers of the Syro-Hittite city-states (1200-700 BC) were lavishly decorated with large-scale, open-air figurative reliefs - an original and greatly influential artistic tradition. But why exactly did the production of such an array of monumental images ever start? This volume explores how Syro-Hittite monumental art was used as a powerful backdrop to important ritual events, and opens up a new perspective by situating monumental art in the context of public performances and civic spectacles of great emotional impact, such as processions, royal triumphs, and dynastic funerals.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Middle East
ISBN : UOM:39015064010534

Get Book

Anatolica by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jennifer Rene Pournelle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSD:31822028261253

Get Book

Crafted City, Administered State by Jennifer Rene Pournelle Pdf

Author : Eric H. Cline
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691166322

Get Book

Digging Up Armageddon by Eric H. Cline Pdf

Preface : "Welcome to Armageddon"--Prologue : "Have Found Solomon's Stables" - Part I. 1920-1926. "Please Accept My Resignation" - "He Must Knock Off or You Will Bury Him" - "A Fairly Sharp Rap on the Knuckles" - "We Have Already Three Distinct Levels" -- Part II. 1927-1934. "I Really Need a Bit of a Holiday" - "They Can Be Nothing Else Than Stables" - "Admonitory but Merciful" - "The Tapping of the Pickmen" - "The Most Sordid Document" - "Either a Battle or an Earthquake" - Part III: 1935-1939. "A Rude Awakening" -- "The Director is Gone" - "You Asked for the Sensational" - "A Miserable Death Threat" - "The Stratigraphical Skeleton" - Part IV: 1940-2020. "Instructions Had Been Given to Protect This Property" - Epilogue "Certain Digging Areas Remain Incompletely Excavated" -- Cast of Characters: Chicago Expedition Staff and Spouses (alphabetical and with participation dates) - Year by Year List of Chicago Expedition Staff plus Major Events.

Author : Amanda H. Podany
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199718290

Get Book

Brotherhood of Kings by Amanda H. Podany Pdf

Amanda Podany here takes readers on a vivid tour through a thousand years of ancient Near Eastern history, from 2300 to 1300 BCE, paying particular attention to the lively interactions that took place between the great kings of the day. Allowing them to speak in their own words, Podany reveals how these leaders and their ambassadors devised a remarkably sophisticated system of diplomacy and trade. What the kings forged, as they saw it, was a relationship of friends-brothers-across hundreds of miles. Over centuries they worked out ways for their ambassadors to travel safely to one another's capitals, they created formal rules of interaction and ways to work out disagreements, they agreed to treaties and abided by them, and their efforts had paid off with the exchange of luxury goods that each country wanted from the other. Tied to one another through peace treaties and powerful obligations, they were also often bound together as in-laws, as a result of marrying one another's daughters. These rulers had almost never met one another in person, but they felt a strong connection--a real brotherhood--which gradually made wars between them less common. Indeed, any one of the great powers of the time could have tried to take over the others through warfare, but diplomacy usually prevailed and provided a respite from bloodshed. Instead of fighting, the kings learned from one another, and cooperated in peace. A remarkable account of a pivotal moment in world history--the establishment of international diplomacy thousands of years before the United Nations--Brotherhood of Kings offers a vibrantly written history of the region often known as the "cradle of civilization."

Author : Mary R. Bachvarova
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521509794

Get Book

From Hittite to Homer by Mary R. Bachvarova Pdf

This book takes a bold new approach to the prehistory of Homeric epic, arguing for a fresh understanding of how Near Eastern influence worked.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1138 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015012790435

Get Book

The New Encyclopaedia Britannica by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1138 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015085542390

Get Book

The New Encyclopaedia Britannica: Macropaedia: knowledge in depth. 19 v by Anonim Pdf